Birchtown and Lockport Nova Scotia 2013

16 min. 2013
Written & directed by the participants in the
Birchtown Summer Video Camp 2012
Ruth Brown, Harper La Plante, Taysia Phelps, Terrell Phelps, Cohan Rennehan & Amie Riley

Through song, poetry and documentary, six youth explore the historic racial divide and their connection to the community of Birchtown, Nova Scotia, home of the largest settlement of the Black Loyalists and free Africans in all of North America, immediately following the American Revolution. They visit the Black Loyalist Heritage Society’s Museum and discover a display of a relative, Margorie Turner-Bailey, a runner in the 1976 Olympics. They seek her out to learn more about her story.

Mentors: Ariella Pahlke, Tara Lee Reddick, Lis vanBerkel and Ann Verrall